My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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